This course will transition you from working on a single computer to an entire fleet. Systems administration is the field of IT that’s responsible for maintaining reliable computers systems in a multi-user environment. In this course, you’ll learn about the infrastructure services that keep all organizations, big and small, up and running. We’ll deep dive on cloud so that you’ll understand everything from typical cloud infrastructure setups to how to manage cloud resources. You'll also learn how to manage and configure servers and how to use industry tools to manage computers, user information, and user productivity. Finally, you’ll learn how to recover your organization’s IT infrastructure in the event of a disaster.
By the end of this course you’ll be able to:
● utilize best practices for choosing hardware, vendors, and services for your organization.
● understand how the most common infrastructure services that keep an organization
running work, and how to manage infrastructure servers.
● understand how to make the most of the cloud for your organization.
● manage an organization’s computers and users using the directory services, Active
Directory, and OpenLDAP.
● choose and manage the tools that your organization will use.
● backup your organization’s data and know how to recover your IT infrastructure in the case of
a disaster.
● utilize systems administration knowledge to plan and improve processes for IT environments.

EM

THIS was the course I was waiting for! I feel like this gets into the true heart of what it means to be an IT specialist. I loved learning about Virtualization, Backups, Active Directories, etc.

JY

Jun 03, 2018

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Lots of great information! The last assignment was pretty challenging. Make sure to include what specific action, service, or product you would recommend and why it would help solve the problem.

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What is System Administration?

Welcome to the System Administration course of the IT Support Professional Certificate! In the first week of this course, we will cover the basics of system administration. We'll cover organizational policies, IT infrastructure services, user and hardware provisioning, routine maintenance, troubleshooting, and managing potential issues. By the end of this module, you will understand the roles and responsibilities of a System Administrator. So let's get started!

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Before we can get into the nitty gritty of what systems administration is, we need to talk about what these systems are. All musicians don't just run on their own, employees need computers along with access to the Internet to reach out to clients. The organization websites needs to be up and running. Firewall have to be shared back and forth and so much more. All of these requirements make up the IT infrastructure of an organization. IT infrastructure encompasses the software, the hardware, network, and services required for an organization to operate in an enterprise IT environment. Without an IT infrastructure, employees wouldn't be able to do their jobs and the whole company will crumble before it even get started. So organizations employ the help of someone like a systems administrator to manage the company's IT infrastructure. System administrators or as we like to call them sysadmins, are the unsung heroes in organization. They work in the background to make sure a company's IT infrastructure is always working, constantly fighting to prevent IT disasters from happening. Notice all of the really hard work that sysadmins put in. So show a little appreciation for your sysadmin by celebrating System Administrator Appreciation Day worldwide. Yes that's a real thing. In all seriousness, sysadmins have a lot of different responsibilities. Any company that has an IT presence needs a sysadmin or someone who handles those responsibilities. The role of a sysadmin can vary depending on the size of an organization. As an organization gets bigger, you need teams of sysadmins. Their responsibilities may be separated out into different roles with job titles like network administrators and database administrators. Companies like Facebook and Apple, don't have a single person running the IT show. But in smaller companies, it's usually a single person who manages the entire company's IT infrastructure. In this course, we'll focus on how just one person you, can single handedly manage an IT infrastructure. You learn the skills you need to manage an organization of less than 100 people as a sole IT person. As you start to scale up to large organizations, you also need to level up your knowledge of systems administration. You need to pick up skills that allow you to automate workflows and manage configurations or computer settings automatically. Right now, let's focus on systems administration in a small organization. In the next couple of lessons, we're going to talk in detail about the responsibilities of sysadmin and how that relates to the role of IT support specialist who handle system administration.